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Message: [QUOTE="intlzncster, post: 2745447, member: 56"] Great post. I don't have much to add, but I do think a lot of people who haven't experienced 'real' depression simply can't understand it, and therefore right it off as simply 'feeling sad', or 'down', or 'sorry for yourself' or what have you. It's not. It's also another world when people experience major depression where they have to live with it for months and years, slowly wearing you down and strangling you. It's really interesting to see brain scans of healthy vs depressed people. Healthy brain scans are all lit up in different areas of the brain, while depressed peoples' scans have a much smaller, more isolated area of the brain dully illuminated. Much less activity. People say that the person is being selfish with suicide, but really, the 'empathic' and logic parts of their brain simply aren't functioning. [/QUOTE]